Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide29 year old Megan is never going to grow up. Although armed with a degree in Counselling she only works the odd day twirling an advertising board in the street for her over-indulgent accountant father. She lives with her soppy dull-as-dishwater high school boyfriend and has the same tight circle of friends she’s had for … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is a tale of a family that has secrets that it keeps from each other, until they get found out that is. It centers on two sisters : 20 something-year-old Dana (Jenny Slate) who is almost grown up, or so she thinks. She works as a copywriter at a trendy Manhattan magazine, and lives … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere are usually two reasons why big-name directors like Academy Award Nominee Stephen Frears (‘THE QUEEN’, ‘GRIFTERS’ etc) return to Sundance Film Festival with new work after some years absence, a) to garner more press coverage, or b) despite the star wattage of their product they still haven’t managed to sell the movie. His ‘LAY THE … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the same manner that movie theaters hand out glasses when you go to see a 3D movie, then you should be giving a box of Kleenex if you are ever fortunate to see this heartbreaking about one exceptionally wonderful and precocious teenager. The fact that Sam’s story is so remarkably moving is not so much … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere are very rare occasions when the somewhat jaded and sceptical Press and Movie Industry audience at the Sundance Film Festival are ever moved to tears. The genuine kind that is. The screening of this highly emotional documentary to a venerated member of the clan was one such occasion, and I swear at one time … Continue reading